
# File: index70.txt
# Issue: 41, 1971-01-02, p.30, 31
# Period: 1-40


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# A

Abominable Snowman, terror of the Himalayas, 9
Adhesives, how discovered, 28
Africa, new nations, 18
Air, weight, 20
Aircraft, skies being overcrowded, 35
Aircraft, supersonic flight, 36
Airship, history, 21
Alcott Louise May, American writer, 9
Alexander the Great, Macedonian king, 29
Alexandria, lighthouse in Ancient Egypt, 22
Alfred, English king, 3
Alice in Wonderland, story, 27
Alligators, species, 30
Alps, European range, 3
Amazon river, 7
American, President's car fortress, 27
American presidents heads on rock face, 18
American writers, 9
American Indians, history, 10
Amundsen, Roald, Polar explorer, 28
Anastasia, daughter of last Tsar of Russia, 37
Anchors, kinds, 39
Ancient Egyptians, family life series, 5-11
Ancient Greece, chroniclers, 1
Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish writer 19
Animal Wonderland:$
  Alligators, 10
  Ants, 23, 22
  Armoured animals, 6
  Bats, 92
  Bears, 27
  Christmas creatures, 40
  Cows, 11
  Crocodiles, 30
  Dogs, 24
  Elephants, 28
  Hibernators, 23
  Homes, 10
  Horses, 12
  Insects homes, 10
  Jellyfish, 14
  lemmings, 33
  Lizards, 37
  Marsupials, 20
  Night creatures, 5
  Okapi, 35
  Polar creatures, 8
  Sea creatures, 15
  Sharks, 18
  Tails, 4
  Toothless, 17
  Zoo creatures, 9
Anquith, Jean, French writer, 7
Antarctic, first complete crossing, 35
Antarctic, Man's colonisation, 38
Antibiotics, medical value, 11, 12
Antonius, Roman emperor, 23
Ants, life story, 21, 22
Acteroa, Maori legend, 40
Apollo 13, Moon landing craft, 18
Aquarius space Module, 19
Arctic, animals, 8
Arctic, explorers series, 27-37
Arctic, Russian ship trapped, 34
Arctic, submarine voyage, 36
Arctic, walk across the Pole, 37
Aristotle, Ancient Greek writer 1
Arms Through The Ages, series, 39-40
Arnhem airborne landings in Second World War 31
Arthur, king, 5
Asbestos, history, 34
Attila, Hun leader 28
Augustus, Roman emperor, 12
Austen, Jane, English writer, 8

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# B

Babel Tower in Babylon, 19
Bacon, Francis, English writer, 10
Baden-Powell, Robert, founder of Scout Movement, 6
Balaclava, battle, 4
Ball-bearings, various uses, 10
Barnard, Christiaan, South African surgeon, 38
Barry, James, woman doctor, 23
Bastille Day, 38
Bats, species, 33
Battery, how it works, 3
Battle of Britain, in Second World War 13
Battles Of Destiny:$
  Balaclava, 4
  Bosworth, 5
  Founagny, 1
  Hastings, 6
  Navarrete, 2
  Nile, 7
  Yorktown 8
Bear, species, 27
Beckett, Samuel, Irish writer, 20
Bede, English scholar, 6
Bees, life story, 5
Beethoven, Ludwig, composer, 2
Big Ben, how time is kept, 15
Big Dan, world's fattest man, 36
Birds, animal friends 7
Birds, beaks, 3
Birds, homes, 10
Birds migration, 34
Bismarck, sinking in Second World War 18
Black Death, plague, 14
Black Douglas, Scottish knight, 30
Black Eagle of Brittany, Bertrand du Guerin, 26
Black Prince, at Navarrete battle, 2
Blake, William, English poet, 14
Blankers-Koen, Fanny, Dutch running champion, 5
Blondin Jean, tightrope feats, 19
Blood, Captain, man who stole Crown Jewels, 37
Blood, life-giving liquid, 13
Bly, Nellie, round the world reporter, 35
Body, contents, 8
Bolivar, Simon, South American patriot, 36
Boomerang, why it returns, 32
Booth, John Wilkes, Lincoln's assassin, 32
Bosworth, battle, 5
Brakes, how they work, 35
Brasilia, new capital of Brazil, 27
Brecht, Bertolt, German dramatist, 19
Britain, Battle of, in Second World War 13
Britain, last invasion, 25
Brooke, James, Rajah of Sarawak 31
Bronte, Charlotte, English writer, 8
Brown, John, Queen Victoria's servant, 6
Buck, Frank naturalist, 15
Building, history in stone, series, 17-28
Building, world's tallest, 14
Bunyan, John, English writer, 19
Buried Treasure, Trinidad, 18
Buried Treasure, what is meant by, 14
Burma, Allied victory in Second World War, 34
Burns, Robert, Scottish writer, 15
Byrd, Richard, Polar explorer, 32
Byron, George, English poet, 14

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# C

Caesars:$
  Antoninus, 23
  Augustus, 12
  Caligula, 14
  Claudius, 15
  Commodus 25
  Galba, 16
  Hadrian, 22
  Marcus Aurelius, 24
  Nerva, 20
  Otho, 16
  Tiberius, 13
  Titus, 18
  Trajan, 21
  Vespasian, 17
  Vitellius, 16
Cagliostro, Count, secret of eternal life, 17
Caligula, Roman emperor, 14
Canada, history, 20
Canada, trains, 36
Canaletto, Antonio, Venetian painter, 7
Capillary attraction what it is, 9
Caraboo, fake princess, 28
Caroll, Lewis, English writer 13
Cats, species, 1
Cavell, Edith, heroic nurse of First World War, 9
Cezanne, Paul, French painter, 4
Channel Tunnel, 19
Charlemagne, Frankish king, 12
Chaucer, Geoffrey, English writer, 6
Chekhov, Anton, Russian writer, 5
China, Great Wall, 28
China, Temple of Heaven, 32
Chlorophyll, substance which makes plants grow, 28
Chocolate, history, 29
Chopin, Frederic, Polish composer, 3
Christmas animals on cards, 40
Christmas around the world 40
Christmas puzzles 40
Christmas Soccer in First World War 40
Cicero, German spy, 4
Cicero, Roman writer, 2
Cinema, history, 23-30
Ciseri, Antonio, Italian painter, 34
Cities, famous ones, 38-40
Claudius, Roman emperor, 15
Clouet, Jean, French painter, 13
Coal, history and future, 24, 25
Cocoa, history, 29
Coleridge, Samuel, English poet, 14
Colorado, Grand Canyon, 5
Colorado beetle, potato pest, 16
Colosseum, Roman arena, 26
Colour, essential to life, 31
Colour, how formed, 8
Combine Harvester, 9
Commandoes, in Second world war, 22
Commodus, Roman emperor, 25
Common Market, Britain's bid to enter, 2
Compass, why it points north, 28
Computers, uses, 1
Concorde, airliner, 1
Conquerors:$
  Alexander the Great, 29
  Attila, 28
  Botvar, 36
  Constantine, 39
  Cortes, 34
  Darius, 26
  El Cid, 35
  Genghis Khan, 30
  Hannibal, 27
  Mohammed, 37
  Saladin, 33
  Tamburlaine, 32
Constable, John, English painter, 2
Constantine the Great, Roman emperor, 31
Copper, metal and uses, 9
Corrigan, Douglas, Atlantic flown by mistake, 40
Cortes, Hernando, Spanish Conqueror, 34
Count of Monte Cristo, story, 26
Cousteau, Jacques, underwater explorations, 3
Cow species, 11
Crane, How it works, 25
Crete, invasion, 16
Crocodiles, species, 30
Crown Jewels, stolen by Captain Blood, 37
Custer, General, his last stand, 17
Cyrano de Bergerac, French adventurer/writer, 39

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# D

Dakota, aircraft 34
Darius, Persian king, 26
Dauphin, what happened to son of Louis XVII, 7
David Copperfield, story, 23
Dawson City, gold rush story, 40
D-Day, in Second World War, 30
Defoe Daniel, English writer, 11
Degas, Edgar, French painter 16
Descartes, Rene, French philosopher, 12
Diamonds, story of mining, 7
Dickens, Charles, Victorian writer, 17
Dogs, species, 24
Domitian, Roman emperor, 19
Dora, Sister, in the Black Country, 36
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Russian writer, 5
Douglas, Black James, Scottish knight, 30
Drummond, Virginia, heroic women officer of Merchant Navy, 39
Dryden, John, English writer, 19
Dunant, Henri, founder of Red Cross, 15
Dunkirk, evacuation in Second World War, 12
Durer, Albrecht, German painter, 30
Dyes, history, 36
Dynamite, invention, 16

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# E

Earth, weight, 25
Easter Island, strange monuments, 21
Echo sounding, how it is done, 11
Edinburgh, story of city, 7-14
Edison, Thomas, American inventor, 11
Eel, life story, 30
Eggs, of various creatures, 13
Egyptians, story of Ancient Egyptian family, 5-11
Ejector Seat, how it works, 12
El Alamein, North Africa, battle in Second World War, 27
El Cid, Spanish knight, 35
Electric Eel, life story, 14
Electrons, what they are, 10
Elephant, species, 28
Elephant Bill, Burma trek with fifty elephants, 36
Eliot, George, English writer, 8
Eliot, T.S., American writer, 19
England, writers, 6, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17
Euripides, Ancient Greek writer, 1
Everest, world’s highest mountain, 14
Explosives, invention, 16
Eyes, colours and characteristics, 17
Eyes, how sight is provided, 24

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# F

Fangio, Juan, car-racing driver, 25
Fans, history, 31
Fashion, through the ages, 34-40
Fawcett, Colonel, explorer in South America, 38
Fawkes, Guy, gunpowder plot, 33
Fibres, synthetic kinds, 26, 27
Fielding, Henry, English novelist, 16
Figures, fun with, 20
Fire Engine, world's biggest, 23
Fish, how it breathes, 1
Fitzgerald, Scott, American writer, 18
Flint, why found in chalk, 15
Flip ship, how it works, 16
Flying Dutchwoman, Fanny Blankers-Koen, 5
Flying Scotsman, famous train, 39
Food, astronauts' and dehydrated, 30
Food, famine danger, 8
Food, history, 10-15
Food, human body's need, 24
Ford T, (Tin Lizzie) car, 4
Formigny, battle, 1
Fossils, prehistoric remains, 1
France, trains, 32
France, writers, 7
Francesca, Piero della, Italian painter, 40
Friction, essential force, 17
Froissart, Jean, French historian, 3
Fry, Elizabeth, prison reformer, 23
Furniture, history, 16

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# G

Galba, Roman emperor, 16
Galen, Greek physician, 31
Garden, indoor plants, 30
Garibaldi, Giuseppi, Italian painter, 13
Gauguin, Paul, French painter, 29
Genghis Khan, Mongol leader, 30
Geoffrey of Monmouth, English writer, 6
Germany, Second World War, series 12-32
Germany, trains, 34
Germany, writers, 4
Gershwin, George, American musician, 34
Geysers, how formed, 34
Gibbon, Edward, English historian, 3
Gibraltar, history, 9
Gilbert William, English dramatist, 19
Giotto, Florentine artist, 1
Glass, history, 29
Gliding how it is done, 40
Glue, how discovered, 20
Goethe, Johann, German writer, 4
Gogh, Vincent van, French painter, 28
Gogol Nicolai, Russian writer, 5
Gold, story and value, 12
Goldsmith, Oliver, English novelist, 16
Grand Canyon, Colorado, 5
Gravity, what is it, 7
Great Barrier Reef, being destroyed by starfish, 32
Great Fire of London, 39
Great Wall of China, 28
Greene, William Friese, moving pictures pioneer, 2
Greene, Graham, English writer, 20
Guardi, Francesco, Venetian painter, 2
Guescin, Bertrand du, French knight, 26
Guggenheim Museum, New York Building, 33

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# H

Hadrian, Roman emperor, 22
Hair drier, how it works, 20
Hals, Franz, Dutch painter, 37
Hamlet, story, 20
Hammarskjold, Dag, Secretary General of United Nations, 35
Handel, George Frederic, German composer, 6
Hannibal, Carthaginian general, 27
Harvey, William, English physicist, 32
Hastings, battle, 6
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, American writer, 9
Haydn, Joseph, Austrian composer, 30
Hay Fever, summer illness, 34
Headline Cities, series, 38-40
Heart, first transplant operation, 38
Heine, Heinrich, German writer, 4
Helicopter, how it works, 31
Hemmingway, Ernest, American writer, 19
Herbert, Wally, Polar explorer, 37
Herbs, medical qualities, 18
Heredity, in human and other life, 17
Herodotus, Roman historian, 3
Hibernation, animals that sleep, 23
Highway of the Sun, Italian motorway, 35
Hilary, Edmund, Polar exploration, 35
Hippocrates, Greek man of medicine, 30
Hiroshima, atomic bomb, 36
History In Stone, famous buildings series, 17-28
Holbein, Hans, German painter, 3, 32
Homer, Ancient Greek writer, 2
Hong Kong, history, 39
Horace, Roman writer, 2
Horses, species, 12
Houdini, Henry, escape feats, 22
Houses Through The Ages, 35-38
Hovercraft, invention, 2
Hugo, Victor, French writer, 7
Human body, food it needs 24
Hunter, John, Scottish physician, 32
HUnter, Jeremy, dwarf friend of Henrietta Maria, 34
Huxley, Aldous, English writer, 20

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# I

Ice Cream, history, 12
Illusions, tricks played by sight, 17
India Thugees, secret society, 39
Inertia, natural force, 15
Insects, homes, 10
Insects, plants that eat them, 25
Israel, history of nation, 13
Italy, Highway of the Sun motorway, 35
Italy, Venice, 12

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# J

James, Henry, American writer, 9
Japan, in Second World War, 19-36
Japan, world's fastest trains, 33
Jellyfish, species, 14
Jet engine, how it works, 15
Jews, Israel home, 13
Joan of Arc, French heroine, 13
Johnson, Amy, air fights, 22
Johnson, Samuel, English philosopher, 12
Jonson, Ben, English writer, 10
Joyce, James, Irish writer, 18

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# K

Kafka, Franz, Austrian-Jewish writer, 4
Kant, Immanuel, German philosopher, 12
Keats, John, English poet, 14
Keller, Helen, blind scholar, 31
Kemal, Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, 4
Kingsley, Mary, missionary among African cannibals, 40
Kipling, Rudyard, English writer, 18
Knossos, Minoan Palace, 21
Koeperick, bogus captain who hoaxed town, 39
Krakatoa, life returns to volcanic island, 10

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# L

Ladies First, woman through the ages, 15-22
Lady Ni's Last Voyage, Japanese legend, 39
Lambert, Daniel, fattest man in history, 36
Langland, William, English writer, 6
Laser Beam, how it works 22
Lautrec, Henri de Toulouse, French painter, 18
Lawrence, D.H., English writer, 18
Lawrence of Arabia, 25
Lead, uses, 6
Leaning Tower of Pisa, 30
Leap Into the Future, space fiction story, 1-10
Leather, history, 38
Lee, Robert E, American general, 8
Leeuwenhoek, Anthony van, Dutch scientist, 21
Legends Of Many Lands, series, 38-40
Lemmings migration, 33
Leonardo da Vinci, painter-inventor, 26
Leonidas, Spartan leader, 7
Light Brigade, charge of, in Crimean War, 4
Lighthouse of Alexandria, in Ancient Egypt, 22
Lincoln Abraham, assassination plot, 32
Lister, Joseph, English surgeon, 37
Liszt Franz, Hungarian composer, 8
Livy, Roman writer, 2
Lizard, species, 37
Log, how ship's log works, 26
London, Great fire, 39
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, American writer, 9
Lorenzo the Magnificent, Florentine ruler, 18
Louis XVII, mystery of French king, 7
Louis, Joe, American Boxer, 31
Lucas, Denis Vrain, French forger, 14
Luddites, workers who wrecked machines, 16
Luther, Martin, German writer and preacher, 4


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# M

Malta, history of George Cross island, 22
Malta, Second World War siege, 25
Manet, Edouard, French painter 9
Man on the Iron Mask, identity unsolved, 27
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, 24
Marie Antoinette, ill-fated queen of French Revolution, 18
Marie Antoinette, reappearance at Versailles 29
Marlowe, Christopher, English writer, 10
Marsupials, species 20
Mary Celeste, mystery of ship, 8
Maugham, William Somerset, English writer, 19
Maya, South American civilisation, 24
Medicine Men:$
  Barnard, 38
  Galen, 31
  Harvey, 32
  Hippocrates, 30
  Hunter, 33
  Lister, 37
  Pare, 35
  Pasteur, 36
  Simpson, 34
Medicines, plants that provide, 18
Mekong, river of South-East Asia, 28
Mendel, Gregor, heredity theories, 17
Mercury, uses, 4
Meredith, George, Victorian writer, 17
Metal, plastic-like kinds, 23
Metsu, Gabriel Dutch painter, 8
Milky Way, star galaxy, 8
Million, what it means, 4
Milne, A.A., English writer, 13
Milton, John, English writer, 11
Miniatures, world's smallest objects, 39
Moby Dick, story, 14-22
Mohammed, religious leader, 37
Moliére, Jean, French writer, 7
Money: why is it needed, 27
Mont Blanc, how tunnel was cut, 24
Monteverde, Claudio, Italian composer, 13
Moon, Man's next steps, 23
Motor Racing, through the ages, 28-33
Mountain Railways, 37
Mountains, new ones being formed, 40
Mozart, Wolfgang, Austrian composer 1
Musical instruments, history, 16

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# N

Nansen Fridtjof , Polar explorer, 27
Napoleon, death by poison theory, 2
Nautilus submarine under the North Pole, 36
Navarrete, battle, 2
Nero, Roman emperor, 11
Nerva, Roman emperor, 20
New York, origin, 4
Niagara Falls, 19
Nietzsche Frederick, German philosopher, 12
Nile, River, battle, 7
Nile, Egypt's great waterway, 6
Ninth Legion, lost Roman army, 26
Nobel, Alfred, dynamite inventor, 16
Nobile, Umberto, Polar explorer, 33
Norse, dangers, 22
North Pole, explorers, series, 27-37
North Pole, submarine voyage, 36

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# O

Octavius, Roman emperor, 12
Octopus species, 15
Oil, history and development, 9, 10
Oil tankers, how they operate, 19
Okapi, animal of the Congo, 35
Oliver Twist, story, 29
Operation Barbarossa, German attack on Russia 17
Orchestra, bands which form one, 16
Orwell, George, English writer, 19
Otho, Roman emperor, 16
Ovid, Roman writer, 2

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# P

Papo, Nicolo, Italian musician, 14
Panama Canal history, 4
Panda, rare animal of China, 22
Parkhurst Mrs, leader of Suffragette movement, 14
Pantheon, Roman temple, 23
Paper, how it is made, 21
Pare, Ambrose, French physician, 35
Paris, Matthew, English chronicler, 3
Paris, Bastille Day events, 38
Pasternak, Boris, Russian writer, 5
Pasteur, Louis, French chemist and physician, 36
Pavlova, Anna, Russian ballet dancer, 29
Pearl Harbour, Japanese attack, 19
Pearls, history, 37
Peary, Admiral, Polar explorer, 30
Peking, Temple of Heaven, 32
Perfume, how it is made, 25
Periscope, how it works, 12
Peter the Great, Russian emperor, 10
Piltdown Man hoax, 1
Pirates, history, 9
Pisa, Leaning Tower, 30
Pissarro, Camille, French painter, 38
Planets, life on them theory, 3
Plants, insect eaters, 25
Plants, medicinal aids, 18
Plants, necessary for human life, 26
Plants, poisonous kinds, 13
Plants, why trees are green, 20
Plants, why they revive in Spring, 29
Plants, world's biggest, 27
Plants, world's oldest, 28
Plastics, history and development, 13
Plastics, metals that are plastic-like, 23
Plato, Ancient Greek writer, 1
Pliny, Roman writer, 2
Plough, history, 21
Plutarch, Ancient Greek historian, 3
Pneumatic drill, how it works, 6
Poe, Edgar Allan, American writer, 9
Polar Exploration:$
  Amundsen, 28
  Byrd, 32
  Fuchs 35
  Herbert, 37
  Hillary, 35
  Nansen 27
  Nautillus, 36
  Nobile, 33
  Peony, 30
  Russian ship, 34
  Scott, 31
  Shackleton, 29
  Submarine, 36
Poles, can Man live in the icy wastes? 38
Pollution, dangers, 5
Polo, Marco, Venetian traveler, 2
Pony Express, history, 33
Pope, Alexander, English writer, 11
Po Rover, Italy, 2
Porsche, Ferdinand, maker of Volkswagen, 1
Potassium Nitrate, 1
Potter Beatrix, English writer 12
Pottery, history, 33
Prince Marko finds his Father's Sword, Serbian legend, 38
Printing history, 22, 23
Propeller, how a ship's one works, 38
Puccini, Giacomo, Italian composer, 15
Pushkin, Alexander, Russian writer 5

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# R

Radar, how it works, 12
Radioactivity, uses, 4
Radium, metal and its properties, 40
Raleigh, Sir Walter, English writer-statesman, 110
Rasputin, Russian monk, 7
Rawicz, Stavorn, escape from Siberian prison, 8
Reade, Charles, Victorian writer, 17
Record, how made, 2
Record player, how it works, 10
Red Cross, history, 15
Red Indians, history, 10
Refrigerator, how it works, 14
Rembrandt, Dutch painter, 31
Renoir, Auguste, French painter, 20
Rhine, journey down, 1-6
Rhodes, siege, 3
Richardson, Samuel, English novelist, 16
Rocket launcher, how it works, 32
Rome, Colosseum, 26
Rome, St. Peter's church, 24
Rome, writers of Ancient Rome 2
Rossini, Gioachino, Italian Composer, 9
Rubens, Paul, Flemish painter 11, 25
Russia, writers, 5


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# S

St. Lawrence Seaway, 20
St. Peter's, church in Rome, 24
St. Sophia church in Turkey, 17
Saladin, sultan enemy of Crusaders, 33
Salt, its value, 7
Sand, George, French writer, 8
Sappho, Ancient Greek writer 1
Sartre, Jean Paul, French writer, 20
Satie, Erik, French musician, 37
Saturn rocket launcher, how it works, 32
Schéler, Johann, German writer, 4
Schubert, Franz, Austrian composer, 4
Schumann Robert, German composer, 24
Schweitzer, Albert, doctor in Africa, 17
Scott, Captain Robert, Polar explorer, 31
Scott, Sir Walter, Scottish writer, 15
Sea bed cities, 21
Sea creatures, 15
Sea serpents, may exist, 26
seaweed, food possibilities, 21
Second World War:$
  Ardennes, German thrust, 32
  Arnhem, 31
  Atlantic battles, 15
  Battle of Britain, 13
  Bismarck sinking, 18
  Burma, Allied victory, 34
  Commandos, 22
  Convoy systems, 29
  Crete invasion, 16
  Dam Busters 28
  D-Day, 30
  Desert victory, 16
  Dunkirk, 12
  El Alamein, 27
  German invasion of Russia, 17
  Hiroshima, atomic bomb, 36
  Japan, Philippines defeat, 33
  Japanese in South East Asia, 20
  Malta siege, 25
  Midway Island battle, 21
  Patriots, 24
  Pearl Harbour, 19
  Resistance Movements, 26
  Rhine crossing, 35
  Stalingrad, 23
  Taranto, 14
Sedov, Russian ship that drifted in the Arctic, 34
Serpents, sea creatures may exist, 26
Seven Wonders of the World, 19
Shackleton, Ernest, Polar explorer, 29
Shakespeare, William, English writer, 10
Sharks, species, 18
Shaving, history, 5-9
Shaw, George Bernard, Irish writer, 15
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, English poet, 14
Ship, Voith-Schneider system of propulsion, 29
Ship, why iron one does not sink, 32
Ship's log, how it works, 26
Ship's propeller, how it works, 38
Sidney, Sir Philip, English writer-statesman, 6
Silver, history, 32
Simenon, Georges, French writer, 19
Simpson, James, Scottish physician, 34
Sisley, Alfred, Anglo-French painter, 23
Smollett, Tobias, English novelist, 16
Snow, forms taken 2
Sonic Boom, 36
Sophocles, Ancient Greek writer, 1
Sound Barrier, aircraft that break, 36
South Africa, trains, 38
South America, Maya civilisation, 24
Space, life in theory, 3
Spacecraft, Apollo 13 Moon landing, 18
Spacecraft, Aquarius module, 19
Speed, limit may be reached, 7
Spender, Edmund, English writer, 6
Sphinx, Egyptian tomb, 20
Spinoza, Benedict, Dutch philosopher, 12
Stalingrad, siege in Second World War, 23
Steinbeck, John, American writer, 18
Sterne, Laurence, English writer, 16
Stevenson Robert Louis, Scottish writer 12
Stonehenge, prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, 6
Stories:$
  Alice in Wonderland, 27
  Count of Monte Cristo, 26
  David Copperfield, 23
  Hamlet, 28
  Leap Into the Future, 1-10
  Moby Dick, 14-22
  Oliver Twist, 29
  Three Musketeers, 32
  Tom Sawyer, 24
  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, 30
  Vanity Fair, 31
  Wuthering Heights, 25
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, American writer, 8
Strauss, Johann, Austrian composer, 25
Submarine, 'ghost' officer of U65, 38
Submarine, Polar exploration, 6
Submarine, type that can fly, 26
Submarine, undersea exploration, 28
Suez Canal, history of Egyptian waterway, 1
Suffragettes, women's freedom movement, 14
Sugar, how obtained and processed, 16
Sullivan, Arthur, English composer, 11
Sulpher, uses, 3
Sun, eclipse and how it is caused, 37
Sun ray's effects, 15
Swift, Jonathan, English writer, 11
Sydney, Australia's biggest city, 37
Szabo, Violette, spy heroine of Second World War, 38

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# T

Table Mountain, South Africa, 10
Tacitus, Roman historian, 3
Tails, animal, 4
Taj Mahal story of Indian tomb, 25
Tamburlaine, Mongol leader, 32
Tankers, large sea-going oil carriers, 19
Tanks, wartime invention, 5
Tape Recorder, how it works, 8
Taranto, battle, 14
Tate, Colonel, American who led last invasion of Britain, 25
Teeth, growth and protection, 39
Thackeray, William Makepeace, Victorian writer, 17
Thames River, story, 8
Thermostat, how it works, 24
Thomas, Dylan, Welsh writer, 15
Three Musketeers, story, 32
Thugees, Indian secret society, 19
Tiberius, Roman emperor, 13
Tide, how it can provide electric power, 31
Time, history, 23-27
Titus, Roman emperor, 18
Tolkien, J.R.R., English writer, 20
Tolstoy, Leo, Russian writer, 5
Tom Sawyer, story, 24
Tower crane, how it works, 26
Trains, world series, 32-40
Trajan, Roman emperor, 21
Trawlers, how they operate, 17
Treasure, Buried, Trinidad, 18
Treasure, Buried, what it is, 14
Tree, how to tell it's age, 3
Trevithick, Richard, locomotive pioneer, 20
Trinidad, buried treasure story, 18
Trollope, Anthony, Victorian writer, 17
Troy, siege may have been fantasy, 10
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, Russian composer, 12
Tschiffeley, A.F., ride across America, 21
Tug, Voith-Schneider, system of power, 29
Tussaud Madame, waxworks creator, 34
Tutankhamun, Egyptian king, discovery of tomb, 23
Twain, Mark, American writer, 9
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, story, 30

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# U

Underground sewers, and other services, 20
Underwater city, 21
United Nations, history, 6
United States, trains, 35
Uranium, history, 38
U.65, submarine with 'ghost' officer, 38
Utrillo, Maurice, French painter, 27

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# V

Vacuum Cleaner, how it works, 7
Vanity Fair, story, 31
Vasco de Gama, Portuguese traveler, 3
Velazquez, Diego, Spanish painter, 5,12
Venice, Italian city, 12
Verdi, Giuseppe, Italian composer, 5
Vermeer, Jan, Dutch painter, 6
Vertical Take-Off Planes, types and how they work, 39
Vespasian, Roman emperor, 17
Vikings, America reached, 1
Villon Francois, French writer, 7
Virgil, Roman writer, 2
Viruses, infection spread by, 6
Vitamins, why body needs them, 25
Vitelius, Roman emperor, 16
Vogelweide, Walter von der, German writer, 4
Voight, Wilhelm, bogus captain of Koepernick, 39
Voith-Schneider, system of ship propulsion, 29
Volcano, why it erupts, 2
Volkswagen, story of German car, 1
Volta, Alessandro, battery invention, 3
Voltaire, Francois, French writer, 7
V2, German war rocket, 6

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# W

Wagner, Richard, German composer, 19
Wating Dragline, excavation machine, 4
Wankel revolutionary motor engine, 33
Warbeck, Perkin, pretender to English throne, 15
Water, microscopic life, 3
Watteau, Antoine, French painter, 10
Weather, forecasting, 36
Weather, ways of controlling, 37
Wells, Herbert George, English writer, 18
Wheel, history, 16-22
Whittle, Frank, jet engine invention, 15
Williams, Tennessee, American writer, 20
Wind Tunnel, how planes are tested, 17
Wolsey, Thomas, English cardinal, 12
Women through the ages, 15-22
Woolf, Virginia, English writer, 8
Wordsworth, William, English poet, 14
Writers, world writers series, 1-19
Writing, through the ages, 1-4
Wright Brothers, first aircraft to fly, 25
Wuthering Heights, story, 25

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# X

X-15, American rocket aircraft, 3
X-Rays, history, 35

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# Y

Yeats, William Butler, Irish writer, 15
Yorktown, battle, 8

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# Z

Zola, Emile, French writer, 7
Zoo animals, cost of keeping, 9
